23 April 2014

Ooh new brushes, I seem to have bought so many new brushes already this year! Within the college I work at, the beauty department were having a makeup training session held by the lovely Louise Young. I managed to make a cheeky trip over to the beauty department whilst the session was taking place to have a little look at the work Louise does, and make a few purchases from the retail stand.

I think it was my lucky day because the brushes were on an extremely amazing offer, normally they retail between something like £9.00 up to £36.00 but because there had been problems with the batch of brushes on the stand, Louise was selling them all off for under £10 each. I managed to get myself five brushes that cost me around £25 altogether, an absolute bargain and in my opinion the brushes are fine apart from a couple of the handles are a little wobbly - even one of my MAC brushes has a wobbly handle and that was over £15.00.

LY37 Brow Brush £9.00 - Initially I didn't pick this brush up to use for my brows, I thought it would be a good eyeliner brush as it's small, precise and pretty flexible. However after giving it a go on my brows I've actually started to like it more than the MAC 266, pretty impressive as I love that brush to death for brows. I like how small and precise the LY37 is, it works perfectly with my Benefit brow zings.

LY19 Taklon Concealer £11.00 - I love trying new concealer brushes and this one is quite different to any I've tried before which is really nice as I am yet to have anything similar in my brush collection. It's a great size and works nicely to gently pat concealer in around the eye area.

LY18 Eyeshadow Sable 1 £11.00 - I couldn't make a brush purchase without picking up an eyeshadow one to try, this brush reminds me a little of the MAC 239 brush as it's a small, flat brush that works really well to pack eyeshadow onto the lid, it also makes a great size and shape for the brow bone highlighting as it's small and dense.

LY38B Tapered Shadow Brush £15.00 - This brush would be perfect if it was a little bigger, although it is super soft and perfect for blending however I find it takes a little while to work effectively as you can only cover a small area at a time.

LY41 - I'm not entirely sure what this face brush is called or how much it retails at, however I've been using it for my bronzer and for contouring, it has quite a flat edge to it which allows you to contour the cheek bones really well but it also works for bronzer and would work with face powder too!